Actually, progress dialog will kind of blocking your UI thread. So
yes, for Android, using handler to post a message to UI thread is one
of the ways to ensure some code will be executed in UI's thread when
the HandleMessge is invoked by the plaftorm in your UI thread. What
this means is that you can put your UI thread code in the
HandleMessage method in your case.
On Feb 24, 11:05 am, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The activity that has the thread running is not written by me but by
> someone else and I cannot control what goes in there. My question is
> why is the activity that I start from my method never being started.
> Progress dialogs are not blocking right?
>
> Rohit
>
> On Feb 24, 1:56 am, dillirao malipeddi <dillir...@arijasoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > create a handler like sample code
>
> > final Handler mHandler = new Handler();
> > Runnable MyActivity= new Runnable()
> > {
> > public void run()
> > {
> > startMyActivity();
>
> > }
> > };
>
> > in your thread use mHandler.post(MyActivity);
>
> > and in startMyActivity() {}
>
> > UI changes or new Activity loading etc...
> > you can do the work as your wish
>
> > ------------------
>
> > it's necessary to stop the progress
>
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > What do you mean by "use handler to start the activity". could you
> > > give me some example code?
>
> > > rohit
>
> > > On Feb 24, 1:21 am, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > well y is an instance of of my class and foo() is defined by me so I
> > > > start an activity, however, the caller (from the thread.run()) method
> > > > is not something that I do. I just noticed someone calling it like
> > > > that (from the Thread.run() method) and it was not working, hence my
> > > > question...Is the problem that it is being called from a thread or
> > > > that there is a progree dialog being showed? or neither?
>
> > > > Rohit
>
> > > > On Feb 23, 8:06 pm, dillirao malipeddi <dillir...@arijasoft.com>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > you must stop the progress by dialog by dismissdialog() and
>
> > > > > from your thread you must use handler to start an activity
>
> > > > > the right way to start any UI tasks in the thread is by using handlers
>
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > There is an activity that shows a progress dialog and starts a new
> > > > > > thread to do some work. One method that is called from this thread
> > > > > > starts a new activity.
>
> > > > > > i.e. ThreadX has a run() method that calls y.foo(). y.foo() starts a
> > > > > > new activity with teh flag Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
>
> > > > > > When I run this - I see the progress dialog but I dont see the new
> > > > > > activity starting up from within the thread. All the context
> > > > > > information is present to the thread.
>
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > Rohit
>
> > > > > --
> > > > > Dilli Rao. M
> > > > > ARIJASOFT
> > > > > +91 - 9703073540
>
> > --
> > Dilli Rao. M
> > ARIJASOFT
> > +91 - 9703073540
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